Of course!
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are all core BRICS nations.
While we talk about “the world” being on our side, and talk about slapping everyone doing trade with Russia with further sanctions, the truth is, not even Mexico (NAFTA and neighbor) is with us on these sanctions.
The US needs to be careful. We have been trying to build relationships with some of these nations (India for example) for many years. Sometimes having someone more or less neutral or playing both sides is better than pushing them entirely into the opponents court.
If we push hard enough, we might be surprised who India chooses.
Last year, global oil consumption exceeded global production by over 1 million bpd. That’s 1%.
OPEC+ has been increasing output authorized, but most of this is not increasing flow because those members of OPEC who were not in compliance with previous restrictions are now arranged to be in compliance.
The only real producer who increases output in a major way because OPEC+ increases authorization . . . is Russia, who are over 25% of OPEC+ output.
Point being, if India doesn’t buy from Russia, they have to buy from someone else, and whoever someone else was supplying is cutoff and has to look elsewhere (to Russia).
Scarcity does this. Not geopolitics.
India has been an alley of Russia going back to the cold war. India was aligned with the Soviets and Pakistan was aligned with the US.